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Royal Heights is a Science Fantasycrossover about the school of lives of seven children from three different dimensions. These dimensions being the shows Yin Yang Yo!, Invader Zim, and El Tigre. Though these aren't actually shows, actually parts of a much broader subject and...well, we'll get to that later. From these dimensions are the children Yin, Yang, Yuck, Zim, Dib, Manny, and Frida who eventually cross paths due to selective dorm arrangement and a specially arranged class known as Utopian Resources.

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While other classes in the academy are listed as Advanced, Intermediate, and Beginners, Utopian Resources is specifically designed only for the Elite, a special class that is hailed above all other courses. The seven students are compiled into this class taught by the Headmaster who leads the school. Here they are given the task of devising a new Utopia by their own means and cooperation within the course of a year. With a device known as the Build System at their advantage and seven independent minds working together, it should be a cakewalk.

But it turns out that such a task and being deemed Elite is a far more dangerous responsibility than any of the students were expecting. Especially when a devious witch is out the destroy the city for her own reasons, the Headmaster may not be as benevolent as she seems, and the perils that may come across the school, dimension, or the Universe as a whole is weighted down on the ever efficient Elite class.

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Instead of the typical exploration into boarding schools and multidimensional mingling, the students must strive to fight off any dangers that may threaten the academy, often risking their lives in the process. And when they do succeed, they are still left with whatever loose ends must be tied up from their previous trials, while trying to keep their roles as heroes, or not, intact for the sake of the school and their sanity.

Though not finished, the first and second arc can be read here. Visit the blog here. A second installment is to be written after the four arc parent story draws to a close in some time.

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Absurdly Powerful Student Council: The Elite function as this within the academy, able to create classes, have the Headmaster as their teacher, and are the only ones permitted to use the Build System towards a new Utopia. But still, they have limitations and are actually more suppressed than the actual student body as shown in chapter seventeen.

Achilles' Heel: All witches are immortal and can instantly heal themselves no matter what injury they endure. But this is all a matter of their bloodstream that contains all of their magic, making their heart that keeps that blood flowing the only way to make them die.

The Headmaster's main fault is that she is connected to a machine that constantly runs but is merely an extension of it, functioning as a computer that turns and turns off in time with the school system. This leaves her entirely vulnerable to attacks within that time period. Strangely enough, it's when she's still active that Zoe, Yuck, and Zim decide to kill her.

Action Girl: Yin takes on a shadow demon on her own, destroying it with a combination of magic and hand-to-hand combat. She even shows her self defense class her skills, paralyzing someone's legs in the process.

A Date with Rosie Palms: Yuck jokingly accuses Zoe's good mood during chapter twenty three on account of her masturbating to Manny.

Affably Evil: Embry is shown to be incredibly polite to all her affiliates. She offers tea, speaks in a very docile manor, and is incredibly patient even with her Terrible Trio of students.

The Ageless: Those born from The Darkness never physically age though they will mentally continue to grow no matter how old they get.

A.I. Is a Crapshoot: What little is known about the HEADMASTER implies something clearly malevolent. It runs on a strict code of perfection and is only accessible to the school when physically connected to the Headmaster. The Headmaster in question seems to show hints of doubt and human emotion but gets it zapped out of her once the HEADMASTER system has fully loaded.

Alien Blood: The Headmaster's blood is shown to be thick and silver once Yuck cuts into her body.

All Just a Dream: The violent torture and death that Yin experiences is later shown to just be an illusion she's experiencing. The only part that was real was the arms of the Royal growing out of the ground.

Applied Phlebotinum: The technology in Utopia involves a mail system able to go to multiple dimensions, jets that can rip through to these dimensions just through speed, and the ability to place people in separate academic categories despite not having any proper knowledge. Of course, they attempt to back this all up with science which deeply annoys Embry.

Astral Projection: Embry is able to separate her Soul from her body to secretly interact with Yin and later teaches her pupil how to do this.

Arc Symbol: Ribbons, buildings, and butterflies have appeared more than once though the meaning has yet to be shared.

Axes at School: Students are allowed to carry weapons as long as they're used in a Combat Course and not for causing any form of physical-but mostly fatal-harm on others.

Berserk Button: A subtle one but the only time Embry is shown to be mildly annoyed or angry is the fact that Utopia overshadows its obvious magical links to their technology by calling it a work of science.

Biblical Motifs: Savior is occasionally used to address the Elite, particularly during Visions, and they are apparently bound to create a New Eden.

Big Bad: Embry though the Headmaster is treated more as one through the second arc.

Big Brother Instinct: Especially evident in chapter nineteen, Yang shows he cares a lot about his sister. When Yuck drops a snide comment about Yin possibly dying in the Facility, his first response is to try strangling Yuck to death.

Blatant Lies: The chapter specifically titled "The Shadows Will Not Harm You". Take a good guess what happens.

Blood from the Mouth: One of the first steps of Yin becoming a witch is for her to forcefully vomit her mortal blood.

Blood Knight: Yuck and Yang though they're forced to suppress their urges to fight due to the high security system the academy has. Yuck even encourages the Halloween Massacre specifically because he gets a reason to fight something.

Boarding School: Royal Heights seem mostly calm and peaceful at first, though the horror elements become more prominent as the Elite takes a deeper look into the school.

Body Backup Drive: The Silver League Station and eventually the Golden League Hospital are entirely filled with Second Consciences that are used to replace a student after theyve died. As soon as one is taken away, another takes it place seconds later.

Body Horror: Yins transformation into a witch involves having her muscles being entirely consumed by the Darkness so they can regenerate. It's not an easy task.

The shadow demons are described as being incredibly tall and lanky creatures with multiple heads that have multiple sharp teeth and dull eyes unless they lack eyes all together. Seeing two children be turned into them just amps up the horror aspect.

Theres also one of the Elite Visions which has the Elite horrifically disfigured with exposed organs, pulled skin, and brains leaking out of their ears. Worst of all, this has already happened to other students in the past and will most likely be enforced on the Elite at some point.

Yin growing vines out of her body during what was hopefully an illusion.

Body Motifs: Most painful inconveniences done to characters will start with their hands or fingers first. This especially applies to the Royal whose hands are the first to grow when her statue emerges from beneath the school. Not to mention her having four arms.

Born as an Adult: Embry explains to Zoe that she never had a childhood and was born with the same body and mind the Darkness gave her when she was first created.

Brain Uploading: The Second Conscience works as this for Silver League and later Golden League students to avoid dying during any disasters. A metal chip is implanted into their finger and links them to a second form that is used for the rest of their lives.

Break Them by Talking: While recovering from her injury after the shadow invasion, Zoe steps into Frida's room to give a long and guilt ridden speech about the Elite failing to protect the academy but directing such a great deal towards Frida's luxuries that it drives her to tears.

Zoe: Now let's multiply that (the students) by two. Generally speaking, most of these kids must have two parents at most. And these parents are waiting at home for their sweet little babies to return. But by the time summer comes around, they'll start to grow suspicious. They'll sue the school, bring up lawsuits until they get answers about their kid disappearing. And despite this, it'll all point back to you guys. The Elite. You guys are supposed to be our protectors. We're supposed to feel safe and now look at what you've done.

Calling the Old Man Out: The Elite eventually start to pick apart the meaning of Utopian Resources, seeing how impossible a perfect world truly is and ultimately seeing through the Headmasters agenda. This doesnt end well on their parts.

Chekhov's Gunman: Minimoose is practically this in universe, seeing as the Core is meant to revive the destroyed Utopia by replacing it with the coordinates of the new city the Elite creates.

Child Prodigy: Most of the younger student body is composed of these and it's a requirement to be one to be at some point to be accepted into the academy.

Christmas Episode: Primarily "Reddish-X-Mas" which takes place on Christmas Day (and is even the twenty fifth chapter) in which a party is taking place while Zoe, Yuck and Zim voyage to the Headmaster's secret quarters to murder her.

Cold-Blooded Torture: Zoe inflicts this on a male and female student to make them proper hosts for shadow demons.

Color-Coded Characters: All the Elite work under some form of color scheme. Yin is pink, Yang is blue, Yuck is green, Zim is violet red, Dib is indigo, Manny is orange, and Frida is red.

Color-Coded Wizardry: Though it is called the Darkness, it naturally adapts to the user's Soul and changes the color from there. Embry for instance who has red magic, Zoe has purple, and Yin's becomes pink.

Contemplate Our Navels: The three part section during "Winter Bound Modernism" has Minimoose regularly considering his existence as well as those of others before each chapter. This is one of many things he thinks about, at least.

Custom Uniform: The Elite occasionally wear special more formal uniforms when taking surveys around the academy.

Crush Blush: Yuck is sometimes prone to this when Yin gets close to him, especially during chapter twenty five.

Dark Is Evil: The Darkness is the magic witches use and is their designated birthplace. Though it being truly evil or not is fairly debatable. But Embry seems fairly aware of the connection dark has with evil and thus lies to Yin that the magic she now has is actually the Light.

Deconstruction Crossover: Has a few elements of this, especially with a good portion of the cast consisting of Kid Heroes that were the designated protectors of their own dimensions, but they're later forced to take on the same role within a world where things like death and failure are much more of an unavoidable option and their victory is not an automatic default.

Demonic Possession: A crucial step to gaining the trust of a race of shadow demons is to offer a pair of bodies for them to possess.

Design Student's Orgasm: The Darkness tends to come with flower or animal based motifs based on whoever wields it. The same goes for the tattoo Zim receives along his arm that's shaped like ribbons surrounding buildings.

Dreaming of Things to Come: The Elite Visions first seem like randomly concocted imagery the Headmaster forces the Elite to see but they eventually realize that the visions imply events supposed to happen in the future such as the awakening of a New Eden and becoming mutilated and placed inside of an underground graveyard of deceased children.

Doorstep Baby: Embry states that Jade, Yin and Yang's mother, was left as a child on her doorstep for her to take care of when Jade's mother passed away.

Dubstep: A part of Frida's Halloween playlist which Zim allegedly insults due to the noise and "bass dropping".

Dumbass Has a Point: Yang's not exactly the brightest but does have enough common sense to question Embry's intentions and advise Yin to be cautious around her.

Eating Machine: Gir which Zim ends up using to his advantage to better get rid of the wires laced into the Headmaster's back when he's hacking into her.

Elaborate University High: Royal Heights is a multilevel academy with castle inspired structures, a rose garden, dense forests, and plenty of highly elaborate technology to boot.

Eternal Recurrence: The only reasons Utopias need to be recreated every four years is that a witch comes to destroy Utopia at the same time, obliterating the city and all its citizens along the way. Then the new Utopia comes in and all is well again.

Even Evil Has Standards: Zoe may be a villain but she has little comfort at the idea of torturing students to death. But as the Darkness begins to consume her conscience, more she starts to have limited remorse even towards mass murder.

Embry actually dislikes the cybernetic grave yard the school has, even hesitating to show Yin at first.

Healing Factor: All witches are capable of regrowing and healing their limbs as soon as they take damage. But that's only because their magic laced blood stream allows it, making their heart the weakest point of their bodies.

Heart in the Wrong Place: Averted with witches whose hearts are placed in the center of their chests to better circulate their magic. And without the heart, their magic will wither away and they'll die instantly.

Heart Is an Awesome Power: While most witches wield the power to control elements, use telekinesis, or shape shift, Embry's specialty is to manipulate words. Though not as much a physical power, this ability allows her have infinite knowledge of anything she's written, be fluent in most languages which helps her speak the native tongue of the Darkness, and influencing any form of written content to her liking. And one she chooses to change first is an old diary that belonged to Yin and Yang's mother.

Holographic Terminal: Most of the school's technology involving the tour guides, the Grid, the invitation, and the Attendance Scanner work as interactive blue holograms.

Intelligible Unintelligible: Minimoose still only speaks in high pitched squeals and shows a certain awareness towards this, but Zim and even the Headmaster has no problem communicating with him. Others seem incapable of understanding anything he says.

In the Hood: Each of Embry's recruits receive a Black Cloak that allow them to teleport and fade into the dark easily.

Invisible to Normals: Only those who possess the Darkness are able to see the spirit forms of those powered by it.

Jerkass: Yuck of course who takes joy out of messing with people for his own amusement, even mocking Yang when his sister passes out from shock and needs to be hospitalized. Zoe can certainly be one but is more so around Frida than anyone else.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Yang can have his self centered or rude moments but he's shown to be rather understanding and considerate during desperate situations. Especially when it comes to his sister and later Dib who he has a tender conversation with in chapter nineteen

Kissing Under the Influence: Manny and Frida on account of the Forbidden Fruit substance that took over the school. Also Yin who kisses a very confused Yuck while she's influenced by the gas.

Kudzu Plot: Has a few elements of this which is lampshaded by the Elite who are often forced to deal with a new mystery as soon as they're trying to unveil another problem they haven't figured out yet.

Light Is Not Good: The Mother has been engaging in a bizarre practice of turning dimensions into nothing by having them fade into a cluster of golden butterflies and glowing dust.

Living Shadow: The conclusion of the "Autumn Scented Paranoia" arc has the school being maliciously attacked by demonic, shadow creatures that have a taste for flesh.

Locked Out of the Loop: Due to his position, it's becomes clear in his monlouges during the winter arc that Minimoose holds a greater deal of information than the Elite.

Love Potion: The Forbidden Fruit is a strange, sweet smelling gas that makes anyone who inhales it become more sexually active towards a certain mate they've already had feelings for.

Lyrical Dissonance: A lullaby Embry regularly sings to herself involves lines such as "the heart can be injured when it's not loved enough" and "that's why I'll protect you from yourself". Zoe lampshades how eerie it actually is in chapter five.

Magical Library: Embry's realm is a gigantic library filled with multiple, tattered books she regularly studies along with her observations tacked up on walls. The fact she has a summoning room on the highest story exists specifically for her witchcraft.

Magitek: Utopia's technology secretly works under these principles and is the only reason a good amount of their inventions work so efficiently. Embry discusses this with Zoe, actually showing disgust at the idea of hiding magical origins.

Major Injury Underreaction: Frida has a large wound along her hip during the shadow invasion and doesn't do much else but limp and call it a "cool battle scar". She actually reacts more to having it treated.

Manipulative Bitch: Embry constantly lies or walks around the truth to further convince Yin that she's a benevolent sorceress that has helped past Royal Height's female students from disasters. She's actually doing this for the first time and baiting Yin with preserving a heroic role.

Mind Rape: The best way to describe the Elite Visions since it always leaves the students traumatized, confused, or just downright terrified of whatever they saw.

Missing Mom: Yin and Yang's mother who ends up being a topic of discussion in the second arc. It later turns out that Embry has known Yin and Yang's mother and grandmother for some time and was actually the Parental Substitute towards their mother after their grandmother died.

The Mole: Due to being part of the Elite, Yuck and eventually Zim work as spies for the group and report any important information to Embry.

The Multiverse: Though the Universe is addressed as a singular creation that wields all dimensions into one place, it still shares some form of significant link to multiple different plains of existence. Utopia's technology has found an advantage to exploiting it for the sake of the academy.

The Needless: As stated in chapter nine, witches are immune to dehydration, starving, and don't physically age. Embry only drinks tea and occasionally bakes because she enjoys it.

New Eden: The name of the new Utopia the Elite are said to create in a surprisingly upbeat Elite Vision. Time well tell if it lives up to that name.

No Dead Body Poops: After a female student is attacked by a shadow demon at his door, Zim notices that her dead body had already began to defecate and he must carefully tread away from both that and the blood to get out of the hallway.

Noodle Incident: When Zoe asks if it's possible for her to create her own realm, Embry casually replies about how past students asked the same questions and that they endured a tragic fate that involved them losing their humanity without going into much detail.

Not Me This Time: Subverted. When the Elite try to decepher who could have murdered the Headmaster, they don't suspect Zim and Yuck, the only real villainous members, since they believe they're too apathetic to even bother. This ends up leaving them scotch free as they actually did take part in her death.

Nothing Is Scarier: In order to truly grasp the creation of a new Utopia, the Elite must undergo a series of visions that embody the concept of nothingness. This leaves them all confused and slightly terrified in that they couldnt even partially understand what they were supposed to be seeing.

As the Core, Minimoose seems utterly unaffected by it even when he's looked directly into it during his journey to Utopia for some time. Seeing dimensions becoming nothingness multiple times disturbs him but he's mostly unshaken.

One Bad Mother: What little is known about The Mother doesn't imply anything relatively positive though she is often held in this position by the Headmaster. An example of this Mother's good deeds is painfully reducing particular dimensions to nothingness, normally turning the citizens into butterflies and gold dust in the process.

Our Doors Are Different: Though there are a few dramatic double door entrances, the Attendance Scanner takes place of all classroom doors, recording the student's presence as soon as they walk in.

Our Souls Are Different: There are a few times when someone's soul will be addressed as a proper noun, as though it were it's own individual life form.

Painful Transformation: Yin's transition into a witch involves hacking up blood and her organs rearranging themselves.

Paradox Person: Yin unknowingly becomes this when Embry makes her into a witch.

Paranoia Gambit: The Halloween Massacre was purposely arranged so that the Elite are forced to comply to any means necessary to protect the students, making them go along with Embry's plans without knowing.

Parental Substitute: Embry took care of Jade until she grew up, functioning as both a teacher and a motherly figure for some time..

Poor Communication Kills: In an attempt to relieve the problems the Elite are already facing, Yin becomes especially secretive about her interactions with Embry as well as the underground graveyard in a previous Vision which she plans to destroy before having anyone else know about it. The only one she's been open to is her brother who reacts appropriately but keeps quiet for her sake.

Power Tattoo: Zim gets a branching, golden design burned into his arm when he attempts to take Minimoose from the Headmaster. Not much is known about it yet though it can dye his inner organs gold, allow him to see normally hidden images, and makes all devices he's created short circuit on contact.

Self-Imposed Challenge: Zim only goes to the school in order to destroy the dimension for the sake of impressing his leaders even more. Over time, he sees how limited his resources are until he partners with Zoe and Yuck.

Spit-Trail Kiss: Yin kisses Yuck in this manner while she's influenced by the Forbidden Fruit.

Spot of Tea: Embry's immortality allows her to go all her life without having a proper meal, thus she only drinks tea and normally offers a cup to those who drop by her home.

Stealth Pun: It just so happens that "Reddish X-Mas" happens by the twenty fifth chapter of the story.

Sticky Fingers: Zoe manages to pickpocket quite a few people without them even noticing.

Stocking Filler: Along with the chains, Zoe also wears fishnet stockings along her arms and legs.

Story Arc: All arcs are seperated by a change in season and span to about thirteen chapters each until transitioning into the next set of months.

Suicide, Not Murder: Embry ultimately convinces Yin to tell the student body the Headmaster's death was on behalf of her killing herself. Yin only goes along because she doesn't want the academy to become paranoid about a possible serial killer.

Yin: So, you're saying that her death was a good thing?

Embry: Her suicide was a good thing.

Tears of Fear: Seeing the hidden display of dead, dissected bodies beneath the school is enough to have Yin crying until eventually passing out from fright.

Teleport Cloak: The cloaks that Embry's recruits use allow the wearer to teleport anywhere they need to simply by spinning.

Terms of Endangerment: Yin and Yuck tend to have a back and forth with one another about romantic pet names. Yuck purposely addresses her as "sweetheart" and "Honey Bunny" only to be addressed as "Yucky" in return.

Just to pile on more flirting, Zoe occasionally calls Manny "kitten" which baffles him incredibly.

Embry seems incredibly fond of "dear", "sweetie", and "honey" even after first meeting someone.

Terrible Trio: Embry eventually gathers up the manipulative kleptomaniac Zoe, sadistic mutant Yuck, and psychopathic invader Zim for her alliance.

This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Upon the lack of success the Elite makes with the second Volunteer Plan, Zim suggests that they try to shout the students into respecting them which Yuck doesn't take seriously at all.

Yuck: No one's happy anymore Headmaster! Now your last Elite ass-kisser is in a coma! I bet it's your fault, you self-righteous bitch!"

Tranquil Fury: The Headmaster never raises her voice whenever she's upset and would much rather initiate some method of punishment to simply threaten people if things don't go her way.

Tricked-Out Shoes: The Utopian Fitness shoes that record a loss of calories, can cool down the wearer, and can be customized easily.

Twin Telepathy: Yang hints that he has this with his sister throughout chapter nineteen.

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